It is obviously a poo shaped blimp floating on a cloud that has the shape of a goat's head forming in it. It is a reference to the old Swedish folklore of Falker Slatherhood, a celebration of male fertility. I can't believe you didn't catch that. :)

OK, the whole family got into it and here is our list of serious guesses:A blimpa fuzzy slipperA beaver with a big brown tailbeach with waterthe end of a paddle in the water, the black squiggles are eddies.

Wow. Um. WTF is that thing? That's um...uh...okay then. Oh I have an idea but it's too gross even for this blog. More like a South Park insult sort of thing since they've got one about a frozen feminine product. Nerds will know what I mean...

When asked, "What does this look like?" my 3-year old said "Cake." She seems to be going through a literal phase. At least she recognized what it is. My 6-year old's response was "A goat under water and the brown stuff is dirt." I think their guesses were better than mine. " I have no idea. Personally I would prefer a boring, plain cake to this.

Well see, the wreckerator got the 80's hit movie "Big" confused with another great 80's flick, "The Neverending Story." So clearly this is Falcor fleeing the Nothing. What this has to do with Father's Day, I can't say.

It's clearly a blue Bichon Frise that just got caught chewing dad's steak, hence the foamy substance around the edges....WV: crespeDad likes his steak a little crespe around the edges, not foaming in dog drool.

Jen, I'm surprised you didn't realize that this cake was photographed UPSIDE-DOWN. When you turn it right side up, it's obviously the rare Portuguese Mustache Slug, on top of a pedestal engraved with "The Grand Ruler of All Sluggydom" in Mustacheslug-ese.

You know how sometimes you can't figure out what it is suppose to be, and you read all the comments, and it's like "oh, yeah, that's it", and you go back to the picture and blow it up, and immediately recognize what it is? Well, that didn't work. Enlarged, it looks like a football and a blue Lhasa Apso. I'm sure it is the "Big" that is confusing us.

@ Kati (5:18PM): Two things:1.: Thanks (!!) for the hat-tip; did you use your Santa hat? ;)2.: If you don't mind my asking, what is that adorable creature that you're holding in your photo?It's very one-of-a-kindish, from what I can see of it.

I keep looking for the "like" button for comments. I think all the guesses are funnier than the cake, this time. And yeah, I'm with the person who said that even after reading the comments, this cake is still a total mystery.

I keep coming back to stare at this particular disaster, and then to the comments to see if someone has figured it out. It sure isn't going to be me. I keep thinking perhaps the brown part is a beer stein or coffee mug but I am drawing a blank on the Mickey ears with catfish whiskers....

Do the extraneous quotes around "Big" offer a clue? Something is "big" on the cake. Hmmm. A big flea on Blue from Blue's Clues? I can't help thinking that's a "big" football. Do any teams have legless rats as their mascots?

I'm almost certain the blue log is a mouse; I can't imagine what the black icing would be if not mouse ears and whiskers. Given that and the fluffy white edging on the text, I think the brown lozenge is meant to be a thought bubble. Whoever ordered the cake thought it would be funny or ironic to have the message about their father's "big" day delivered by a (tiny) mouse. There's probably an inside joke in there somewhere.

I passed this around, and my 4 year old thinks it is rain. My husband thinks maybe it is a boat (after staring at it for a long time). I kind of wonder if it is supposed to be a wooden sign and then a catfish because of the strange whiskers, but it really looks more like a blue blob with a messy mouse face. I also saw the "dIE" someone referenced in the earlier posts.

It's a poorly done JAWS themed cake. The brown area is the boat, and the blue area is the water/shark biting into the boat. The "Big" Day is a reference to the line, "I think we're going to need a bigger boat." Maybe Dad is a fisherman?

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